Support for bed-slatsv



UNITED. ST TE PATENTQQFFICEO FREDERIC e. FORD, OF ROXBOROUGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SEBPEGIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,268, dated April 7,1885.

Application filed March 26, mm. x0 mod 91.)

State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain.

newand useful Improvements in Supports for Bed-Slats, &c., of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, in which a perspective of the entire device is shown, Figure 1. representing the tongue, and Fig. 2 the socket.

My invention relates to supports for bedslats, shelves, 850., and has for its object to provide a cheap and simple device, but yet one having great strength. The variety of articles to which it may be attached is almost without number, as is evident. It is quickly and easily applied, and when the parts are placed together they are rigidand without the loose fitting and wabble common to many forms of supports. This advantage is very apparent when the device is applied to long and narrow articles, as bed-slats. They not only support the slats, but serve to keep the sides of the bed rigidly parallel, and thereby take the strain, in a great measure, from a the corner connections of the bed. Of course inwide objects, like shelves or similar articles, two or more supports may be used.

The rigid fitting of one part of the device in the other makes the shelves, 850., as firmas though they were a part of the article to which they are connected by the supports. A bracket, A, has a plate, 13, connecting two extensions, A, at right angles to wings B, through which securing-screws are passed to fasten the device to a bed or other article. The extensions A are extended above the top of the plate B, and are there rounded outward.

The said plate B being at the outer ends of v adapted to enter the end of the slat, shelf, &c. This plateis provided witha right-angle extension, F, which is adapted to enter the bracket. On the side of the plate against which the slat or shelf rests are two or more lugs, G, adapted to enter the material, and

so aid the screws inpreventing any slip or movement of the plate on the said slat or shelf. The lugs on both the plate and the bracket aid very materially in giving strength and rigidity to the entire device. The thick ness of the plate is equal to the depth of the recess in the top of the bracket, thus, as is evident, making the upper surfaces even and allowing the slat, &c., to rest over both, and thus afford double support to the same. The plate is somewhat wider than the right-angled extension on it, for the purpose of giving additional supporting-surface to the body supported, and extends from either side of the said extension, with a slight inward curve to correspond to the curve on the sides of the recess on the bracket. This may be a bevel instead of a curve. or bevel is to prevent all side motion of the plate in the bracket, as is plainly evident.

The articles to which the device is attached may be easily taken apart for cleaning, painting, &c., and in the case of bed-slats they will serve,with the device attached,to keep the bed' from spreading or falling apart.

The device may be used for securing the different parts of wardrobes, boxes, household furniture, &c., together, instead of nails or screws, and provide thereby a means whereby they may be easily taken apart and packed in a. small compass.

65 i 7 The purpose of this curve Although the device may be made of any material, it is preferably made of malleable Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A support consisting of a bracket formed ofa plate and two wings having right-angle extensions,to the outer edge of which the-said plate is connected, said extensions projecting above the plate and there rounded outward,

and a plate rounded to fit said projections, said plate provided at one edge with a right-angle 10 4 the otherside of the same edge, both the plate and the flange having lugs on their bearing surfaces, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERIU G. FORD.

Witnesses:

J. J. MOOARTHY,

J'oE RUSSELL. 

